[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Playing around with staff client

[Josh Stompro]

  After thinking about it and trying this out I like the design of it.  
If I use the capture holds interface then anything going to the hold 
shelf is passed right through with no extra staff involvement which 
would make processing a large stack of items go quickly.  If an item 
wasn't going to fill a hold and was picked up by mistake it would throw 
an exception.  And vice versa for item check in where most of the items 
would be expected to be reshelved. 

Now I am wondering about pickup notices?  Has that been implemented 
yet?  Will an hold pickup email be sent out automatically or is it a 
process that requires a report to be run by staff?  How about notifying 
someone with a phone call.  Is that handled by staff when the holdslip 
is printed?

Thanks
Josh
> Capturing holds basically just marks the item as being "on the holds 
> shelf".  This also tells the server that the hold has been captured so 
> email notices can be generated.  It's interesting that you should 
> suggest using the check-in interface to capture holds ;).  You can do 
> it that way as well - the caputure interface and check-in interfaces 
> simply make different assumptions about which reciepts you want 
> printed by default.
>

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